Button and button-fastener.



No.-663,32l. Patented Dec. 4, I900.

A. ALLGIER.

BUTTON AND BUTTON FASTENEB.

(Applicafiion filed Nov. 12, 1896.)

(No Model.)-

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NHED Sterne ANDREW ALLGIER, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN;

BUTTON AND BUTTON-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 663,321, dated December 4, 1900;

Application filed November 12, 1896; Serial No. 611,860. \No model.)

[0 (all whom 212? ntcty concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW ALLGIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons and Button- Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in garmentbuttons, and particularly panta- Icon-buttons; and its objects are, first, to provide a button that may be readily attached and detached; second, to avert the danger of the button tearing out of its fastening when in use; third, to provide a detachable button having the head and base solidly connected before attaching it to the garment, and, fourth, to provide a garment-button with a flexible fastener to insure as perfect pliability between the button and the garment to which it is attached as is attained with a button that is sewed to a garment. I attain these objects by the structures illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a button on the line a: x of Fig. 3 with the several parts assembled. Fig. 2 is the same with the several parts disconnected. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a button with the detachable fastener in section on the line y y of Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a plan of the detachable fastener; and Fig. 5 is a modified form of the fastener, showing holes and hooks for securing it to the garment.

My button, unlike other bachelor-buttons, is designed to be manufactured complete before attaching it to the garment, my invention residing in the construction of the button and the manner of securing it to the garment, so that it may be readily attached and detached, but may not be drawn out of its fastening while subjected to the ordinary strain incident to its use.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

I prefer that the button used shall be made with a body A, having a downwardly-project ing tubular stem at, through which the standard b on the base B may pass and be riveted firmly, as indicated at b in Fig. 1, so that the button may be cheaply and solidly made; but any button having a head and base connected by a slender neck may be used.

C represents an ordinary ornamental cover for the head of the button.

The fastening device by which the button may be secured to a garment consists of a washer E, made of rubber or other flexible material that may be stretched, as shown in Fig. 4, thus enlarging its central opening a, so that it may be buttoned over the base of the button to rest between said base and the fabric D of the garment, as indicated in Fig. 3, and leave sufficient space between the head A of the button and the garment to freely receive an additional thickness of fabricsuch, for instance, as a Suspender-loop. This washer E is provided with a bead 6 upon its outer face which prevents the edge of the base of the button from coming into contact with and cutting or becoming entangled with any fabric, such as that of a garment back of the button. A serious 0bjection to other buttons of this class is thereby avoided.

Fig. 5 shows a top View and a side View of a slightly-modified form of fastener E, likewise formed of flexible material and having a central orifice e and a surrounding bead e and having holes 6 and hooks a by means of either of which it may be secured to the fabric of the garment to hold it more securely in place and to more thoroughly prevent the button from tearing from the fabric.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. A button-fastener consisting of a disk of flexible material, having a head on its edge to protect the fabric from injury by the base of the button, and a central orifice adapted to be engaged by the shank of the button having a flanged base. thereon, substantially as described.

2. An article of manufacture, comprising a button having a head A, provided with a hollow depending shank a, a flanged base B, provided with a hollow shank b, and a flexible detachable fastener E, having a central orifice e, and provided with a depending bead e on its outer edge to secure the button to the garment and protect the fabric from injury by the base, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a garment-button, of a flexible and detachable fastener to pass over the base of the button and rest between the base and the fabric, and hooks or similar appliance attached to said fastener.

for securing it to the fabric of the garment, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 1o

Signed at Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 7, 1896.

ANDREW ALLGIER.

In presence of CHAS. E. LEE, ITHIEL J. OILLEY. 

